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title: You still really want a skateboard a whole month after seeing an adv… — Advert tricks and offers that are too… · tree and pragmatics
description: You still really want a skateboard a whole month after seeing an advert. What does that suggest? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 281 «Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true

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You still really want a skateboard a whole month after seeing an advert. What does that suggest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You, that · **What happens:** want, see, suggest · **To what, where:** skateboard, advert

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 281 «Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You still really want a skateboard a whole month after seeing an advert.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t9:1
# text = You still really want a skateboard a whole month after seeing an advert.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	skateboard	skateboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | infinitive | You | a skateboard |  |  | still; month |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot skateboard=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | You *not said here* | a advert |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer advert=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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*Sentence 2:* What does that suggest?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t9:2
# text = What does that suggest?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present · do-support | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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You should never buy anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t9:o1:1
# text = You should never buy anything
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **buy** | should | You | anything |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It is probably a real wish, not just an advert's push

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t9:o2:1
# text = It is probably a real wish, not just an advert's push
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a real wish and a advert's push |  |  |  | probably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **push** |  | a advert |  |  |  |  |  | nom push «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The advert tricked you even more and you should forget it now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t9:o3:1
# text = The advert tricked you even more and you should forget it now
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tricked	trick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | past | the advert | you |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 2 | **forget** | should | you | advert |  |  | now |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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You must buy two of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t9:o4:1
# text = You must buy two of them
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | must | You | two of them |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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